The Jungle
About this book
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.
Subjects
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- beef industry
- capitalism
- chicago (ill.), fiction
- chinese
- classic literature
- corruption (in politics)
- corrupt practices
- dictionaries
- emigration and immigration
- english language
- factories
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
- fiction, political
- french
- general
- german
- historical fiction
- history
- illinois, fiction
- immigrants
- korean
- labor laws and legislation
- labor supply
- law and legislation
- literature
- lithuania, fiction
- lithuanian americans
- lithuanians
- lithuanians in the united states
- meat industry
- meat industry and trade
- nonfiction
- open library staff picks
- packing-houses
- political corruption
- political fiction
- politics
- slaughtering and slaughter-houses
- slaughtering and slaughterhouses
- social conditions
- social problems
- sociology
- spanish
- spanish language
- stockyards
- trade unions
- working class